ACHPR: Stronger Protection for HRDs Needed to Respond to Clampdown
6 November 2013
At the just concluded session of the African Commission on
At the just concluded session of the African Commission on
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) should order a fact-finding mission to investigate the deaths and detention of hundreds of demonstrators, a group of 11 international and African organizations said in a letter made public today.
11 human rights NGOs have written to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to call on them to urgently condemn the excessive and disproportionate use of force against protestors, and restrictions on basic civil and political rights in Sudan.
One of Uganda’s leading human rights defenders, Mr. Livingstone Sewanyana,
54th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and
Presented at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights,
54th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and
Report submitted to the 54th ordinary Session of the African
Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network (PAHRDN) congratulates Ms. Yara Salam (North Africa), Mr. Livingstone Sewanyana (East and horn of Africa), Mr. Imam Baba Leigh (West Africa), Ms. Paulette Oyane-ondo (Central Africa) and Ms. Lucia Da Silveira (Southern Africa) winners of the first ever Africa Human Rights Defenders Awards that were held on 22nd October 2013 at Kairaba Beach Hotel, The Gambia.
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